VICTORY! App Store Accountability Act Now LAW in Texas—Despite Protest of Apple CEO 

Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported that

Apple CEO, Tim Cook, called the Texas Governor

and asked him to

veto

the App Store Accountability Act. Big Tech is pulling out all the stops to halt legislation that would require them to take child safety seriously.

But their lobbying has failed!

On Tuesday, Governor Greg Abbot signed the App Store Accountability Act into law! Texas is now the second U.S. State to enact this NCOSE-backed law. 

The App Store Accountability Act significantly requires app stores to

verify the age of users

before allowing them to download age-restricted apps. It also requires

parental consent

for minors to download apps or make in-app purchases, and requires app stores have 

accurate age ratings 

to inform parents about the dangers on an app. 

This is a wide-reaching solution for child protection that will significantly simplify parent's efforts to keep their kids safe online.

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ACTION: Ask Your State to Pass the App Store Accountability Act!

Utah and Texas have both made the App Store Accountability Act law. Ask your state to be next!

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5 Myths About Sex Buyers

This article will debunk common myths about sex buyers that often go hand-in-hand with arguments in favor of legalizing or decriminalizing prostitution.

Myth 1: Sex Buyers Need Prostitution for Their Emotional and Physical Well-Being

Advocates for legalizing or decriminalizing prostitution (i.e. removing criminal penalties for sex buying, pimping, and brothel keeping) often claim that sex buying is conducive to men’s well-being. Some even going so far as to paint it as a form of therapy.  

In Germany, prostitution is being reframed as necessary “therapy” or “healing” for men, and “sex therapy” is being pushed as

a form of rehabilitation for convicted rapists

.  

Reframing prostitution as a form of “therapy” for men creates a classist hierarchy in which prostituted women are a lower class that become tools for “sexual therapy” for the most dangerous men. 

This class of women becomes disposable and subject to experimental therapies like these.  

Further, even if it 

were 

true that prostitution has a positive effect on the well-being of men (which is highly doubtful, to say the least), the reverse is true for prostituted women. 

We should not have to sacrifice the health, well-being, and fundamental rights of women to fulfill this false narrative that men are entitled to sex.

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ACTION: Ask Your Local Elected Officials to Hold Sex Buyers Accountable!

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Pornhub & Other Porn Tube Sites Under Investigation in EU

NCOSE applauds the European Union for opening an investigation into pornography websites Pornhub, XVideos, XNXX, and Stripchat for allegedly failing to protect children from accessing their sites in violation of the Digital Services Act.

“The EU is right to investigate these pornography tube sites for not preventing children from accessing harmful pornography

. Mainstream pornography sites like Pornhub have hosted child sexual abuse material, sexual assault, rape, image-based sexual abuse, and nonconsensual content. Pornography tube sites can and should do more to ensure children cannot access this content and must be held to account,” said Dr. Marcel van der Watt, president, National Center on Sexual Exploitation. 

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ACTION: Ask Your Legislators to Protect Children from Online Pornography!

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NCOSE President, Marcel van der Watt, Testifies at Trial RE: Sex Trafficking of Joshlin Smith

Marcel van der Watt, NCOSE president, recently testified at the trial of Jacquen ‘Boeta’ Appollis, Steveno van Rhyn, and Kelly Smith who have been accused of kidnapping and trafficking 7-year-old, Joshlin Smith, in South Africa. Smith has been missing since February 2024.

"This aligns with the established patterns of trafficking crimes, where victims are treated as commodities with financial earning potential. The accused knowingly commodified Joshlin, prioritising their financial motives over her well-being and safety,” van der Watt testified. 

Van der Watt also prepared a 35-page report for sentencing proceedings. In the report, he states:

"This was not a spontaneous act but a calculated crime. The evidence also strongly suggests no other alternative but that Joshlin was sold for exploitation."

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